Mar 28
What is more important in world building in video games, the locations or the characters? This is a challenging question. By definition, dynamic and interesting locations are required in order to build a world worth exploring. However, no world in any video game – regardless of how pretty or expansive it may be – is …
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Mar 15
This week with the release of God of War Ascension fresh in our minds, and Gears of War Judgment looming in the not-so-distant future, we thought it would be a fine time to tackle the idea of long-form narratives in gaming. We look at franchises in which it worked, didn’t work and just went right …
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Mar 13
Irrational Games lit quite a spark when it revealed the official box art for BioShock Infinite back in December. The cover was rightfully maligned for boiling a beautiful, unique, and multi-layered adventure down to a generic shot of the protagonist holding a gun in a passive-aggressive stance. The prevalence of this uninspired box art tactic …
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Apr 24
Writer: Mac Walters Artist: Eduardo Francisco Review by Tim Taylor Dark Horse is releasing a Mass Effect four issue limited series called Homeworlds. Each issue is an one-shot dedicated to a single character in the ME universe for a quick, character-specific story. Issue one focuses on James Vega and boasts a creative team of Mac Walters …
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Mar 15
Electronic Arts has barraged quite a marketing push for BioWare’s trilogy-concluding epic, Mass Effect 3. Among the usual stable of ads, space-travelling copies of the game, an art book (with DLC), action figures (with DLC), and two other iOS apps, Mass Effect: Infiltrator (released the same day as its console sibling) has one thing to say …
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Feb 20
This week’s show has a lot of discussion on tower defense and mobile gaming, but also discussion of Shank 2 and Rayman Origins. News breaks of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Activision attempts to block said news, Ubisoft announces and dates Assassin’s Creed 3, and Rayman Origins turns a profit! EA sends Mass …
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Feb 15
Design. Innovate. Communicate. Entertain. While the Game Developers’ Conference (GDC) has grown increasingly commercialized, the annual DICE summit remains a game conference about a certain type of person in the game industry: the developers. It’s a place where developers can get together from all over the world and just talk about what they do without …
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Jan 17
Writer: Mac Walters Artists: Omar Francia Review By: Tim Taylor Greetings, worthy travelers, and welcome to The Nerdery. I call it The Nerdery, because if you’re looking up reviews of comic books based on video games, chances are you are probably a pretty big dork. That said, I am also a pretty big dork and …
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Aug 29
This week Dual Wielding tries a segment swap as we start off with the news of the week covering the PS3 price cut, Sonic CD coming to most digital platforms, and Skyrim having exclusive DLC for 30 days on the Xbox. Then we try out a question of the week as we ponder if boss …
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Aug 15
The 3DS finally finds a home among the podcasters (we would count Anthony’s, but he’s been busy this summer!) so discussion on the rather questionable handheld takes up the bulk of whatcha been playing. There’s also talk of Bastion, Torchlight and Metroid: Other M. The news quickly derails as we discuss RAGE’s install size, single …
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